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"This above all -to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night, the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." Polonius' advice to a son going to travel- Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I.

My web-logs began with a website-8 personal pages, offered by Orange.fr. Then followed my 1st Blog effort, thanks to Google's Blogger. Initially I had little idea as to the proper focus to bring to my blog. Sustainable development, climate change, my professional evolution, as a process metallurgist in high temperature physical-chemistry a very masculine notion of one's-self had taken me far from another of my facets. My natural but mixed instinct for nature, ingrained by my countryish, small industrial, seaside-town, birth place. A visit to friends in the French Antilles-Guadeloupe consolidated my already; ecological, environmental, christian-social-conscience, tendency. I chose two intimately related "World Changing" concepts: Firstly Conversations" & secondly it's Scientific, Technical and Engineering corollary "Innovation." Read on with pleasure: Historical-note-on-my-blog-experience

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Tuesday, 18 October 2016

"The Biowaste4SP project focused on biowaste in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and South Africa, identifying streams that could be put to better use. It produced a catalogue of residues from agriculture and food production, and looked into ways of transforming these materials into bioethanol, biogas, chemicals, biofertiliser, or food and feed ingredients.READ MORE: Biowaste from EC /europa.eu/research/infocentre/Enjoy.

Making the most of Africa's biowaste -
from my EU RSS feed on my other pages Converstions... Materials Sci....etc (tweeked) I am sorry to add. But readers, especially my African readers, will find the direct link below

"Making the most of Africa's biowaste
Cassava peel, sugar cane vinasse and overripe bananas - residues such as these may be known as biowaste, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily wasted. An EU-funded project identified sources and current uses of such materials in five African countries and proposed quick, simple ways of processing them into products with higher added value."

A company name is easy to make "Biowaste African Energy"? Comments welcome.

"Every one of the past 14 months has broken the global temperature record. Ice cover in the Arctic sea just hit a new low, at 525,000 square miles less than normal. And apparently we’re not doing much to stop it: according to Professor Kevin Anderson, one of Britain’s leading climate scientists, we’ve already blown our chances of keeping global warming below the “safe” threshold of 1.5 degrees." quoted from the Guardian.

Global Temperature Targets and how to achieve them

"If we want to stay below the upper ceiling of 2 degrees, though, we still have a shot. But it’s going to take a monumental effort. Anderson and his colleagues estimate that in order to keep within this threshold, we need to start reducing emissions by a sobering 8%–10% per year, from now until we reach “net zero” in 2050. If that doesn’t sound difficult enough, here’s the clincher: efficiency improvements and clean energy technologies will only win us reductions of about 4% per year at most."

Quick look

"Maybe our engineers are missing the point. The problem with geo-engineering is that it proceeds from the very same logic that got us into this mess in the first place: one that treats the land as something to be subdued, dominated and consumed. But the solution to climate change won’t be found in the latest schemes to bend our living planet to the will of man. Perhaps instead it lies in something much more down to earth – an ethic of care and healing, starting with the soils on which our existence depends.

Of course, regenerative farming doesn’t offer a permanent solution to the climate crisis; soils can only hold a finite amount of carbon. We still need to get off fossil fuels, and – most importantly – we have to kick our obsession with endless exponential growth and downsize our material economy to bring it back in tune with ecological cycles. But it might buy us some time to get our act together." ref The Guardian

Well known but quickly forgotten.

"Feeding the world isn’t about higher yields; it’s about fairer distribution. We already grow enough food for 10 billion people. In any case, it can be argued that regenerative farming actually increases crop yields over the long term by enhancing soil fertility and improving resilience against drought and flooding. So as climate change makes farming more difficult, this may be our best bet for food security, too."

Wednesday, 8 June 2016

I trust readers will profit from this globally important new open access feed inclusion due to the highly reputable peer reviewed journal Elsevier.

I have just downloaded the following Review Article for addition to my personal library:

"Carbon capture, storage and utilisation technologies: A critical analysis
and comparison of their life cycle environmental impacts. " Rosa M. Cue´ llar-Franca, Adisa Azapagic *, from the highly reputable School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester,

I trust readers will enjoy joining me in reading this and related articles and hopefully put into practice sustainable climate frendly projects.

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

On 29 September, the XPRIZE Foundation
based in Culver City, California,
announced a 4½-year competition
that will award US$20 million to the
research team that can come up with
the best way to turn carbon dioxide from a
liability into an asset.

Read full information, chemical sequence schemas and example of production from Nature News